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Fun Stuff => BAND => Topic started by: Mark7 on 30 May 2006, 13:55

Title: In Praise Of NEU!
Post by: Mark7 on 30 May 2006, 13:55

I'm listening to all three LPs in chronological order tonight :D

Title: In Praise Of NEU!
Post by: Coonstar on 30 May 2006, 14:26

Krautrockin'?

Title: In Praise Of NEU!
Post by: Mark7 on 30 May 2006, 14:27

Indeed

I'm on side 2 (why, yes I do have them on vinyl) of "75" now.  

:D

Title: In Praise Of NEU!
Post by: Kai on 30 May 2006, 14:35

Quote from: Coonstar

Krautrockin'?

The most majestic and amazing of pasttimes.



I love kraut rock.

Title: In Praise Of NEU!
Post by: Tago Mago on 30 May 2006, 14:51

Your vertical hold must be haywire from all that bouncing.

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Post by: E. Spaceman on 30 May 2006, 15:23

Neu! were awesome, but my kraut-heart belong to Can.

Title: In Praise Of NEU!
Post by: Kai on 30 May 2006, 15:39

Tago Mago is one of my favorite albums ever.



And does anyone listen to Amon Düül/Amon Düül II? Because Yeti is amazing.

Title: In Praise Of NEU!
Post by: Mark7 on 30 May 2006, 15:53

I watched some ADII on youtube earlier.

Title: In Praise Of NEU!
Post by: negative creep on 30 May 2006, 15:59

suddenly i feel a bit ashamed, because i don't know much about krautrock at all,... being from germany and all that....

i think i really should start listening to that stuff... i have the feeling that i might like it.

Title: In Praise Of NEU!
Post by: timehat on 30 May 2006, 17:31

Quote from: Kai

Tago Mago is one of my favorite albums ever.



And does anyone listen to Amon Düül/Amon Düül II? Because Yeti is amazing.

I've never heard any of the original Amon Duul jam session, but I've heard a handful of Amon Duul II albums. I listened to part of Yeti just earlier today, in fact.

Title: In Praise Of NEU!
Post by: Zaarin on 30 May 2006, 17:35

As my avatar probably tells you, my opinion of Neu! is very high indeed.

For those new to Neu! ("new to Neu!", geddit?!?11), I recommend anything from their self titled debut, but in particular "Negativland" or "Hallogallo".

Title: In Praise Of NEU!
Post by: timehat on 30 May 2006, 17:39

Have you heard the Porcupine Tree cover of Hallogallo where they merge it with their song Signify?

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Post by: nuisance on 30 May 2006, 19:50

I love the first Neu! album, but didn't really feel any need to buy other stuff of theirs I heard.  Seemed like they made their definitive statement right upfront.

The first couple of Kraftwerk albums (both w/o titles) with Dinger and Rother on them are potentially pretty interesting for the Neu!-ness.  I'll always love Kraftwerk first and foremost for the super icy refined shit they got into in sequencer land, but this early business is way more woolly and wild.  Haha, flowery adjectives a gwan!

Also, the first Harmonia album is one of my favourite albums in the whole world.  So ... [restrains himself] good.  It's Neu!'s Michael Rother with the two guys from Cluster, Moebius & Roedelius.

Title: In Praise Of NEU!
Post by: nuisance on 30 May 2006, 19:57

I think this is worth its own post... Can were an incredible phenomenon, IMO.  Things have got so hyped even saying "in a world of hype, these guys are one of the few that deserve it" sounds like part of the hype. :P

 But fuck, most any other band has a pretty clear, nailed-down identity, they're going somewhere and they develop a sound and they do things a certain way, whereas Can was like a crazy collision of a million possible concepts.. so much conflict and unpredictability and variety in what they did, but never in a sort of gadfly "today we're a reggae band" type way.  Always going new places, but not through pastiche.

So in this regard, however good someone like Neu! is they're not like that Walt Whitman poem people quote... "I contain multitudes", yadda yadda.

Sorry, got a bit excited. :P  I have to be honest, I don't listen to Can that much, but they're a thrill to think about it, to listen to from time to time and I so wish I'd seen them live.  [cue that LCD Soundsystem track]

Here's a link to the best interview there has ever been.  Damon Albarn and Graham Coxon of Blur meet Holger Czukay and Irmin Schmidt of Can, and the old bastards just completely slam them for the entire interview.

http://www.czukay.de/history/interview/wicked.html

Edit:  I put an apostrophe in the possessive pronoun "its"!!!

Title: In Praise Of NEU!
Post by: The Hammered on 30 May 2006, 21:34

I've been planning to pick up something by Can the next time I go to the only store I know of that sells even slightly obscure stuff. It's a shame they're a bit of a pain to get to.

Title: In Praise Of NEU!
Post by: Kai on 31 May 2006, 04:50

Nuisance, that interview is amazing.

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Post by: Kid Modernist on 31 May 2006, 12:40

I LIKE A BANNNND!

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Post by: El Opium on 31 May 2006, 14:53

NEU! are great, but I totally have to side with the Tago Mago forever crowd.